In November, CHS reported on the process to update the Capitol Hill Design Guidelines — Rule #1: No ugly buildings, we quipped. The guidelines, which haven’t been updated since 2005, serve as a neighborhood-specific vetting framework for projects that go through the city’s broader design review process. These guidelines inform how design review boards evaluate the exterior aesthetic of proposed projects (the guidelines include metrics such as building materials and building shape).

'Pick two of your favorites from these images' - Take this survey to help shape the next decade of Capitol Hill development

In November, CHS reported on the process to update the Capitol Hill Design Guidelines - Rule #1: No ugly buildings, we quipped. The guidelines, which haven't been updated since 2005, serve as a neighborhood-specific vetting framework for projects that go through the city's broader design review process.

A development set to create market-rate housing and reshape a key block of Central District arts and culture and a project that proves Capitol Hill microhousing is not dead will both take their debut bows in front of the East Design Review Board Wednesday night.

A development set to create market-rate housing and reshape a key block of Central District arts and culture and a project that proves Capitol Hill microhousing is not dead will both take their debut bows in front of the East Design Review Board Wednesday night.

Seattle City Council fans, grab your popcorn. The new committee assignments are out and you’ll be seeing some familiar faces in new roles in council business in 2018.

Sawant to chair City Council's new committee dedicated to homelessness services, renters rights

Seattle City Council fans, grab your popcorn. The new committee assignments are out and you'll be seeing some familiar faces in new roles in council business in 2018. District 3 representative Kshama Sawant will start the third year of her four-year term with a new assignment for the council as chair of the newly formed Human Services, Equitable Development, and Renter Rights Committee.

Bigly loser Hillary Clinton still has lots of fans on Capitol Hill. Readers carrying her new book, What Happened, lined up on a chilly Tuesday outside 10th Ave’s Elliott Bay Book Company where the politician who nearly became the nation’s first woman president made a signing appearance.

Bigly loser Hillary Clinton still has lots of fans on Capitol Hill. Readers carrying her new book, What Happened, lined up on a chilly Tuesday outside 10th Ave's Elliott Bay Book Company where the politician who nearly became the nation's first woman president made a signing appearance.

Pro-labor advocates opposed to the grocery chain’s planned arrival in the Central District gathered outside the office of Lake Union Partners Monday afternoon to hand over a letter asking the developer to reconsider plans for Portland-based New Seasons to anchor the East Union mixed-use project.

Seattle labor opposition continues for New Seasons plans at 23rd and Union

Pro-labor advocates opposed to the grocery chain's planned arrival in the Central District gathered outside the office of Lake Union Partners Monday afternoon to hand over a letter asking the developer to reconsider plans for Portland-based New Seasons to anchor the East Union mixed-use project.

True affordability means keeping rents in the city down for everybody. An effort to help Capitol Hill Housing shape “Seattle’s first LGBTQ-affirming affordable senior housing development” at 14th and Union will take another step forward next week with a Community Visioning Workshop:

True affordability means keeping rents in the city down for everybody. An effort to help Capitol Hill Housing shape "Seattle's first LGBTQ-affirming affordable senior housing development" at 14th and Union will take another step forward next week with a Community Visioning Workshop: LGBTQ-Affirming Affordable Senior Housing: Community Visioning Workshop "We've heard consistently from the community about the need for a place where LGBTQ elders in the community could age," said Ashwin Warrior, Capitol Hill Housing spokesperson.

The Seattle City Council followed through Monday on a second piece of legislation to further regulate the short term rental market in the city and raise new funding from the industry.

To push back on short-term rental boom, Seattle adds new Airbnb regulations

The Seattle City Council followed through Monday on a second piece of legislation to further regulate the short term rental market in the city and raise new funding from the industry. Council members approved a package of rules that will limit owners to only two units at a time on services like Airbnb.

Given the coming changes at 23rd and Jackson, the shuttered Red Apple in the shopping center acquired for Vulcan redevelopment can be a symbol of pretty much anything you want — gentrification, displacement, change. But last week, it was simply a giant shuttered space full of old grocery infrastructure that needed to be cleared out. The Punk Rock Flea Market was in full scramble mode to find its 2017 one-weekend home after previous plans fell through. So those shelves — and much much more — needed to come out.

Given the coming changes at 23rd and Jackson, the shuttered Red Apple in the shopping center acquired for Vulcan redevelopment can be a symbol of pretty much anything you want - gentrification, displacement, change. But last week, it was simply a giant shuttered space full of old grocery infrastructure that needed to be cleared out.

As SPD's report on Lyles fatal shooting released, I-940 make last push for signatures

Organizers pushing for Initiative 940 to provide law enforcement officers more training on de-escalating lethal situations while eliminating Washington's so-called "malice standard" for prosecuting police killings say they want to be doubly sure they have enough signatures to quality for the ballot.

While the Seattle City Council dramatically voted down a proposed tax on big businesses to fund homelessness services (otherwise known as the employee head tax) during last month’s contentious budget city budget negotiations, they also passed a resolution establishing a task force to study the same tax they had just voted down as well as other potential ways to pay for homelessness services.

While the Seattle City Council dramatically voted down a proposed tax on big businesses to fund homelessness services (otherwise known as the employee head tax) during last month's contentious budget city budget negotiations, they also passed a resolution establishing a task force to study the same tax they had just voted down as well as other potential ways to pay for homelessness services.

One of the more rapidly blighted empty spaces on Capitol Hill will spring back to life in 2018. The little ones who will put it to use every day will say more about Capitol Hill Station and the neighborhood’s proximity to downtown than this stretch of Capitol Hill’s nightlife growth or a new highly anticipated industry coming to the street.

Next for E Olive Way restaurant space: International Montessori Academy

One of the more rapidly blighted empty spaces on Capitol Hill will spring back to life in 2018. The little ones who will put it to use every day will say more about Capitol Hill Station and the neighborhood's proximity to downtown than this stretch of Capitol Hill's nightlife growth or a new highly anticipated industry coming to the street.

In the Northern Hemisphere, people spend much of winter considering freezing weather, both out of practicality and for the fun of snow. In the Pacific Northwest, lowland rain may be more common than frost, but that doesn’t mean we never get freezing weather. Plants know this, otherwise our native forests would likely look very different. Have you ever considered how trees cope with frozen conditions?

Pikes/Pines | December Dormancy: How Hill's trees persist in winter

In the Northern Hemisphere, people spend much of winter considering freezing weather, both out of practicality and for the fun of snow. In the Pacific Northwest, lowland rain may be more common than frost, but that doesn't mean we never get freezing weather. Plants know this, otherwise our native forests would likely look very different.

You'd imagine that now, as the dust from the brouhaha surrounding the McCleary Decision around how education is funded in Washington State has begun settling, there would be a baseline of adequate funding for our schools.

Volunteer Park Trust's annual celebration of the holidays provided some seasons greetings warmth on a frosty Thursday night in Seattle. Now in its sixth year, the community group's Holiday in the Park event again featured pathways lit with luminarias and plenty of caroling thanks to community sponsors.

Name: Eric Eye Location: Dark Age Tattoo Artist: "A very good friend did both at different times. I put them on my hands so that they're always staring at me and sort of keeping me in line. The right hand keeps me striving to be better and the left hand keeps me staying in the moment.

In a rush against time and the looming Republican evisceration of federal tax credits, the City of Seattle will enter into a 55-year lease for the continued operation of the Seattle Asian Art Museum and an agreement that paves the way for a needed $54 million upgrade of the 84-year-old building its calls home in Volunteer Park. The agreement will come even as the City Council parks committee shepherding the agreement is asking for more from the deal.

In a rush against time and the looming Republican evisceration of federal tax credits, the City of Seattle will enter into a 55-year lease for the continued operation of the Seattle Asian Art Museum and an agreement that paves the way for a needed $54 million upgrade of the 84-year-old building its calls home in Volunteer Park.

Redhook is now all in on Capitol Hill — with some help from Portland. The Pacific Northwest beer brand owned and operated by global brew force Craft Beer Alliance will soon have only one Seattle-area brewing operation under its banner — right here on E Pike — after agreeing to sell its Woodinville brewery site for $24.5 million.

Redhook is now all in on Capitol Hill - with some help from Portland. The Pacific Northwest beer brand owned and operated by global brew force Craft Beer Alliance will soon have only one Seattle-area brewing operation under its banner - right here on E Pike - after agreeing to sell its Woodinville brewery site for $24.5 million.

Optimizing the fine dining experience has meant *some* restaurants — nobody on Capitol Hill, of course — would rather you and your lovely date move along to open up a table and, gasp, not have dessert. That’s ok when places like R&M Dessert Bar are coming along.

R&M Dessert Bar brings sweet touch to a night out on E Pike

Optimizing the fine dining experience has meant *some* restaurants - nobody on Capitol Hill, of course - would rather you and your lovely date move along to open up a table and, gasp, not have dessert. That's ok when places like R&M Dessert Bar are coming along.

It's no surprise that Capitol Hill leans hard to left in local elections. In 2015, socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant decisively won reelection against Urban League CEO Pamela Banks with roughly a ten point margin, and lefty Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders had a solid base of support on Capitol Hill during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary.

There is no shade thrown more darkly than the criticisms leveled at an old building brought up for landmarks review by a developer who wants dearly to demolish it. Seattle’s Landmarks Preservation Board Wednesday night unanimously rejected the nomination of Broadway’s 1961-built Bonney-Watson Funeral Home calling the modern-style building underwhelming, boxy, and, well, depressing.

There is no shade thrown more darkly than the criticisms leveled at an old building brought up for landmarks review by a developer who wants dearly to demolish it. Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board Wednesday night unanimously rejected the nomination of Broadway's 1961-built Bonney-Watson Funeral Home calling the modern-style building underwhelming, boxy, and, well, depressing.

Police and Seattle Fire were called to E Pine at Summit Wednesday night after a woman was reported stabbed in the leg with a pen aboard a Metro bus.

Woman stabbed with pen in E Pine Metro bus incident

Police and Seattle Fire were called to E Pine at Summit Wednesday night after a woman was reported stabbed in the leg with a pen aboard a Metro bus. Police were looking for a suspect from the 9:30 PM incident described as a white female in her 30s, around 5'6″ with dark long hair, wearing two back packs and a burgundy coat.

While some spaces along Broadway seem like they may never come back to life, others are more fungible. After some construction work, the former home of a big chain bagel shop is slated to be reborn as the latest investment from the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Plenty, Inc.

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Witnesses said a car appeared to veer out of its lane and strike another before flipping on its roof in a crash on Boren just north of Pike early Tuesday evening.

One injured as car flips in Boren crash

Witnesses said a car appeared to veer out of its lane and strike another before flipping on its roof in a crash on Boren just north of Pike early Tuesday evening. Seattle Fire responded to the "heavy rescue" response just before 7:30 PM and found a small sedan on its roof in the northbound lane of Boren with its driver still inside.

Kathleen O’Toole’s decision to step down from her job leading the Seattle Police Department was greeted much differently than another big change at City Hall Monday.

Durkan's City Hall clean slate includes search for new Seattle City Light CEO

Kathleen O'Toole's decision to step down from her job leading the Seattle Police Department was greeted much differently than another big change at City Hall Monday. Where O'Toole was praised and thanked after her "personal" decision to leave the post, Seattle City Light's head Larry Weis didn't seem to have a chance to survive newly sworn-in Mayor Jenny Durkan's wiping of the slate.

With $1.3 million allocated in the 2018 budget for studying and building a safe consumption site in Seattle, staff at city and county agencies are gearing up to draft the “feasibility study,” a report that will address location and costs for the site, who will pay for it, and how it will be run.

With $1.3 million allocated in the 2018 budget for studying and building a safe consumption site in Seattle, staff at city and county agencies are gearing up to draft the "feasibility study," a report that will address location and costs for the site, who will pay for it, and how it will be run.

Free Rent pic.twitter.com/0dRk8ortPS - jseattle (@jseattle) November 27, 2017 Tenant rights, labor, and housing advocate groups are planning a day of protests and education to counterbalance the presence of landlords from around the state at an industry trade show at the convention center downtown Tuesday.

A Capitol Hill restaurant's night off turned out to be a right place, right time situation along Seattle's waterfront just after midnight Monday morning. During an outing planned as a very Seattle morale event - a night of squid jigging on Elliott Bay - chef Shota Nakajima and employees from 15th and Pine's Adana were fishing when they heard a splash and someone yelling for help near Seattle's Great Wheel.

If you eat like old person (11:30 lunch), no lines no matter how deep the hype gets at whatever latest joint you visit pic.twitter.com/YDH3AvdYzv

Bok a Bok Capitol Hill now open

If you eat like old person (11:30 lunch), no lines no matter how deep the hype gets at whatever latest joint you visit pic.twitter.com/YDH3AvdYzv - jseattle (@jseattle) December 4, 2017 Pike/Pine's nightlife scene on a weekend can be into long lines. It's a good indicator of a hopping venue for patrons to line the sidewalk waiting to get inside.

After three years on the job, Kathleen O'Toole is stepping down from her post as Seattle's police chief. Newly sworn-in Mayor Jenny Durkan will make the announcement Monday morning and outline the process to find O'Toole's replacement "and continue reform."

Elliott Bay protest could be a sign of things to come for Mayor Durkan

The " first protester arrested during the Durkan administration" won't face trespassing charges after being forcibly removed from Elliott Bay Book Co. as he and two other people attempted Thursday to disrupt a speech by newly sworn-in Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan. As a former federal official - Durkan served as U.S.

The CHS Flickr Pool contains more than 35,000 photographs — most of Capitol Hill images, many glorious, some technically amazing. The pool is a mix of contributions from Capitol Hill — and nearby — shutterbugs. Interested in being part of it? If we like your photo and it helps us tell the story, we may feature it on CHS so please include your name and/or a link to your website so we can properly credit you. Interested in working as a paid CHS contributor for scheduled assignments? Drop us a line.

CHS Pics | This week in Capitol Hill pictures

The CHS Flickr Pool contains more than 35,000 photographs - most of Capitol Hill images, many glorious, some technically amazing. The pool is a mix of contributions from Capitol Hill - and nearby -...

December kind of snuck up on us, But it’s time. Get jolly. Right now. This weekend, Santa — Bad Santa, if you like, or Black Santa, too — is already here. The Baby Doll Tree is out and shining on E Pike. And don’t think you can try to avoid him this weekend and get away with it. Santa will be back next weekend — Conservatory Santa, anyone? — too.

December kind of snuck up on us, But it's time. Get jolly. Right now. This weekend, Santa - Bad Santa, if you like, or Black Santa, too - is already here. The Baby Doll Tree is out and shining on E Pike. And don't think you can try to avoid him this weekend and get away with it.

Though her construction began in 1917, she was actually born a year later so you still have time to get a gift. 11th Ave’s Kelly Springfield Motor Truck building is celebrating 100 years on the planet with a massive facelift. And, let’s be honest. Pretty much all that will be left of her is her face. Longtime CHS video contributor David Albright captured the 11th Ave changes of the former auto row facility, then REI, then Value Village in motion:

Though her construction began in 1917, she was actually born a year later so you still have time to get a gift. 11th Ave's Kelly Springfield Motor Truck building is celebrating 100 years on the planet with a massive facelift. And, let's be honest. Pretty much all that will be left of her is her face.

One of Seattle’s many progressive experiments, the Democracy Voucher program proved effective for balancing the scales between everyday people with limited money for campaign donations and large companies with more than enough to support their candidate of choice.

Seattle's Democracy Vouchers: They worked

One of Seattle's many progressive experiments, the Democracy Voucher program proved effective for balancing the scales between everyday people with limited money for campaign donations and large companies with more than enough to support their candidate of choice. Around 25,000 Seattleites made campaign contributions.

Furyan, a Dutch Shepherd, is named for a character in The Chronicles of Riddick. CHS found Furyan hanging out with his owner Sarah at Cafe Vivace. Known for their work in dog sports, herding, police and military work, Dutch Shepherds are very athletic and obedient dogs. Other than being a very friendly dog, Furyan is also training in a dog sport called IPO, known as Schutzhund in German, which means “protection dog.” IPO focuses on obedience, tracking, and protection.

Capitol Hill Pets | Protective Furyan and Sarah on Broadway

Furyan, a Dutch Shepherd, is named for a character in The Chronicles of Riddick. CHS found Furyan hanging out with his owner Sarah at Cafe Vivace. Known for their work in dog sports, herding, police and military work, Dutch Shepherds are very athletic and obedient dogs.

Mayor Jenny Durkan got the full Capitol Hill experience Thursday as she came to the neighborhood for a Pike/Pine walking tour and to announce the formation of Seattle’s first Small Business Advisory Council. The new mayor met a collection of Capitol Hill entrepreneurs, grabbed a latte at Vita — and got a momentary earful from protesters who briefly disrupted her announcement inside Elliott Bay Book Company before being shuffled out of the store where police awaited outside.

On Capitol Hill, mayor greeted with applause, protesters as she announces Seattle Small Business Advisory Council

Mayor Jenny Durkan got the full Capitol Hill experience Thursday as she came to the neighborhood for a Pike/Pine walking tour and to announce the formation of Seattle's first Small Business Advisory Council.

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